News and Rumors

In my opinion next to Thorsten Heins, as the most important person at RIM, is Frank Boulben. As the Chief Marketing Officer, he is the man who is in charge of shaping the image of BlackBerry 10 phone and how exactly you will see it. His job is to get people to look at BlackBerry in a
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Today Research In Motion (RIM) announced that they have begun a Beta program to test BlackBerry 10 in a technical preview capacity. The program will include beta testing to a select 120 customers which includes 64 Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies. These select customers
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The Holiday Season is here and S4BB Limited wants to share that with the BlackBerry Community! They've selected some of their finest apps, and put them on sale for just $0.99! Get some of their best titles, such as, Memory Booster, Foto Booth, CIA World Fact Book and Learn Apps. The sales lasts till December 31st! Check out the
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Wikitude is giving their brand and website a new look. The new logo design happens to look very sexy (see above). Retaining the same yellow color scheme, the logo is now a camera lens to symbolize Wikitude as the window from your device to the outside world. And before Wikitude enters into the year 2013, they have a few other happenings:
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We've have already seen some nice clear photos of the BlackBerry 10 L-Series device, but none like this one. N4BB has stumbled across this sexy rendition of the device, "in all it's glory." I think that sleek textured back just really makes this device stand out. RIM really took the time to make sure this slab style
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No doubt, Thorsten Heins has taken a beating from the media. No one thought that for the first 10 months of his taking on the CEO position that he could come away with a successful turnaround of BlackBerry. He has persevered through delays, criticisms, layoffs and total company restructure. With only little over a month away
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Just Days before the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion plans on announcing their fiscal third-quarter numbers, the company has been dropped from the NASDAQ-100 Index. Being dropped from the stock market "power rankings" validates what is already known about the mobile device
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The Street reports that according to surveys that Scotia Capital analyst Gus Papageorgiou has seen, 70% of existing RIM subscribers plan to upgrade their old BlackBerry device for a new BlackBerry 10 device.

That means if the numbers hold true to the current 80 million subscribers, that means RIM will be selling around
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Donny from the InsideBB Blog has gone old school on us and posted a blog in which he names 4 awesome retro Arcade game classics that you can play on your BlackBerry device. If you miss those childhood classics and want to relive the days of playing low res games, give the list below a good look:

Advance OS and LED version 16.0 has just been approved and can now be downloaded via App World and alsooz.com. This update brings more LED and popup features, as well as the ability to create your own LED contact groups and customize the size of your popups. See the full changelog below, and be sure to let us know how the update works for you:

Skylab Mobilesystems Limited has released a brand new map application for BlackBerry Smartphone & PlayBook: Soviet Military Maps. The maps were created by the Soviet Military during the Cold war and where highly classified until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With Soviet Military Maps you'll have the same maps at hand on your BlackBerry
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Great news is coming for international travelers who use TELUS. Through an internal doc leaked to MobileSyrup, we now have information on the long-awaited International Roaming packages that TELUS should be finally launching next week.

These packages will be able to be added to your plan & will be applicable for Western Europe, Oceania and Mexico (including popular travel destinations such as Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France,
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I admit it. I'm an IKEA junkie. I love walking through the store and seeing whats new and what cheap things I can find. Well, I have to admit, this story is something else for someone like me. Being a BlackBerry junkie as well as an self-professed IKEA junkie, my jaw hit the floor.
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Celebrities and BlackBerry, they used to be synonymous like peanut butter and jelly. Nowadays, you see a lot of celebrity iSheep but there are still the die-hard celebrities that have kept their BlackBerry smartphones. With more and more celebrity phone scandals happening because of
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Donny from the InsideBB Blog has a quick chat with RIM's Head of Software Portfolio, Vivek Bhardwaj, on the BlackBerry 10 keyboard. Vivek goes into the design of the keyboard, as well as mentioning that while the space key on the touch keyboard is the largest, it's ironic how the
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